Webinars and other forms of presentations can be a great way to gain familiarity with a new topic or brush up on a skill that you haven’t used in a while. These presentations cover a variety of topics, from security to project management, and come from various sources around the web.
Teaching Lab Skills via Open and Online Instructional Videos: Better Prepared Students and More Effective Teaching Time during Practicals
Will using video instructions on laboratory skills lead to better-prepared students during practical sessions, as well as more effective teaching time? What are the important video characteristics in making them educationally feasible, pedagogically suitable, and usable for open and online education?Outcomes: Learn important video characteristics of skills video lessons and apply them within your own practice *Learn how and why teachers use video instructions in a blended teaching manner *Identify risks and opportunities in using online courses to learn skills (as a next step)
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SOURCE: Educause
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Advancing a Data-Driven Culture Through Collaborative Partnerships
Our institutions continuously seek new ways to gain insight from the vast amounts of data we collect. IT has a critical role to play in delivering valuable information but cannot succeed alone. This presentation will describe how we are advancing a data-driven culture through collaborative partnerships at Purdue University.Outcomes: Understand why collaborative partnerships matter for building a data-driven culture *Use a BI maturity framework to assess your current state and progress *Identify opportunities for collaborative partnerships along with strategies that work for building them
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SOURCE: Educause
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Increasing the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness of Your Recruitments
A diverse workforce enhances both productivity and job satisfaction. However, gaps in salary and opportunities for both women and people of color remain persistent in higher education. How can we move past lip service and take action in recruiting with an eye toward diversity, equity, and inclusion? Join us to learn innovative approaches that work!
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SOURCE: Educause
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Better Decision Making: Data You Can Use to Inform Your Cloud Strategy
Developing a cloud strategy is an important way to make decisions about your IT project planning and implementation that identifies the costs, risks, and value-add of moving to the cloud. But where can you find the data you need to support your strategy, and how do you take advantage of the resources available to you? This session looks at data currently available through EDUCAUSE, as well as resources being developed by the ECAR Cloud Working Group. You’ll hear from institutions who have used these data and resources to enrich their cloud strategies.Outcomes: Learn about useful EDUCAUSE data and resources for developing cloud strategies * Hear how those resources have been put to work in specific use cases * Get suggestions for how you can apply similar strategies at your institution
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SOURCE: Educause
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Learning Strategies: From Knowledge to Know-How
Our ability to continuously learn and adapt will determine the extent to which we thrive in today’s universities, in our personal lives, and in these disruptive times. This session will provide strategies for learning at the pace of change, based on learning analytics data of lyndaCampus users. Implement 9 learning strategies that will make a difference in teaching and learning.Outcomes: Define a minimum of 9 learning strategies *Utilize data methodology to learn how learners (the herds) learn on campus *Select current methods for integrating and implementing learning strategies within subject matter and disciplines
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SOURCE: Educause
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IT Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity from the Inside Out
Academic and operational activities at universities are subject to major service disruptions caused by the environment, equipment failures, and people. Planning and preparation are paramount to successful recovery in a crisis. In this session, a disaster involving simultaneous main power feed, UPS, and generator failures will be reviewed and lessons learned during the two-month crisis. The valuable lessons learned and outcomes will provide the context for a discussion of a practical “inside out” recovery prioritization planning framework for IT and university business units.Outcomes: Understand the importance of DR/BC planning and preparation * Learn from an actual disaster * Learn about different methods to deal with DR/BC planning
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SOURCE: Educause
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Trust through Transparency: Communicating the Value of IT
Developing sustainable IT funding models remains a top IT issue, and you can’t get there without effectively communicating the “value of IT.” Learn why telling this story is so critical to your success, how data can help you make a compelling case for IT, and how to show (not tell) IT’s value through service management, process, and governance.Outcomes: Identify key elements of an IT value proposition * Understand how to communicate the value of IT through action * Determine your capability to construct a compelling case for IT
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SOURCE: Educause
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Rethinking Academic Technology for 21st-Century Teaching and Learning
Pedagogical and technological changes are upsetting the status quo of course delivery. To remain relevant, academic technologists must be responsive, agile, and forward-thinking within a context of rapid change, high demand, and limited resources. Learn how one academic technology unit strategically prioritized and responded to these challenges in today’s climate.Outcomes: Articulate tactical work in response to the strategic goals of your institution and department *Redefine priorities in response to technological and pedagogical change *Retrofit Brown’s reflexive model to fit your own institutional culture
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SOURCE: Educause
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So You Wanna Be a CISO? Understanding the Skills, Pathways, and Professional Development to Get You There
EDUCAUSE conducted extensive research on the role of the higher education CISO in 2016, focusing on leadership development; skills and abilities; and mentoring and professional development case studies. In this session, panelists will paint a picture of the skills, leadership pathways, and professional development opportunities available to aspiring CISOs.Outcomes: Understand contemporary CISO leadership and technical skills *Understand CISO professional development opportunities *Understand CISO career pathways
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SOURCE: Educause
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Merge Ahead: Library-IT Organizations in the Liberal Arts
Whether contemplating a merger or looking to improve library-IT relationships, participants will discover best practices in reconciling library and IT cultures, issues to consider when merging (and how to address these before the merger takes place), and examples of natural working affinities across campus and within library and IT organizations.Outcomes: Learn best practices in reconciling library and IT cultures *Understand some of the issues to consider when merging *Articulate natural working affinities across campus and within library and IT organizations
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SOURCE: Educause
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